Droid X: The Missing Manual

Transferring Pictures to Your PC in Bulk

If dragging files one by one in Windows Media Player seems like too much work, there’s a simpler solution, as long as you want to copy all your Droid X pictures to your PC.

Note

When you select this method, all your pictures will be transferred from your Droid X to your PC; you won’t be able to select individual pictures. To select individual pictures, see the previous section.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Connect your Droid X to your PC, and select USB Mass Storage or PC mode (Connecting Your Droid X to Your Computer).

   The AutoPlay screen appears on your PC.

2. Click Import Pictures.

   A screen appears asking if you want to add tags to your pictures. When you tag a picture, you add text information that isn’t visible, but that can be used to find, sort, and display your pictures. For more details about tags, see Working with Multiple Photos. Add a tag if you want.

   

3. To customize the way Windows imports your pictures, click the Options link.

   You arrive on the Import Settings page, where you can change the folder where the pictures are imported—if you don’t change the folder, they go into a subfolder in your PC’s Pictures folder. You can also change other options, including the subfolder that will hold the folders, the file names each picture is given, whether to erase photos from the Droid X after the photos are imported, and so on.

   When you make changes to the Import ...